Time(s) - 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Please join APG on August 16, 2025 at 2pm in the APG Ansley Mall Gallery or via Zoom for an artist talk and book signing with Forest McMullin for his new book, Shooting at Shadows.
McMullin say of the book, “In 1993 I spent eight months working on a photo story about radical racists, most of whom lived in Pennsylvania. I interviewed a convict inside Attica Prison, slept on the floor of a ramshackle trailer in a rural compound, rode in the back of a Ryder truck going to an anti-gay rally, and attended a cross burning. I hung out with skinheads and Aryan Nations and Klan members. I saw and heard things that were shocking and repugnant. By the end I had a story strong enough for my agent to license to publications around the world. You can see some of the photographs in the Archive section of this site here.
Several years later I found out that some of the people I had photographed had robbed twenty-two banks, netting several hundred thousand dollars. Six of them either pleaded or were found guilty and were sentenced to federal prison.
I decided that working on the story and spending time with those criminals had the potential for an exciting book. After experimenting with a non-fiction treatment, by 1999 I settled on a fictional version and started writing what became Shooting at Shadows.”
Read a full review here.
Books will be available for a special price of $12 and McMullin will be signing.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
A photograph can tell the truth. It can also get you killed.
Ethan McGuire’s relentless pursuit of explosive stories has cost him his family, his integrity, and now–possibly–his life. While documenting the rise of white supremacist movements in Western New York, Ethan encounters a world of neo-Nazis, heavily armed survivalists, rogue FBI agents, and violent criminals, all with something to hide. But when a crew of ruthless bank robbers starts hunting him for photos he doesn’t even know he has, the stakes turn deadly.
As his enemies close in and his family becomes a target, Ethan must expose the truth–before it buries him. Shooting at Shadows is a relentless thriller and chilling cautionary tale, inspired by the author’s real-life experiences as a photojournalist. It exposes the darkness lurking beneath the surface of American extremism–and the cost of bringing it to light.
“One hopes that McMullin has further adventures planned for his unlikely hero.”
–Kirkus Reviews
“…a provocative thriller exploring highly pertinent themes in American culture today…”
–Fredrick Soukup, author of Blood up North
“A dark and gripping tale set on the far-right fringe.”
–Kirkus Reviews
Forest McMullin is a freelance photographer, artist, writer, and educator based in Atlanta. He has work in the permanent collections of Hunter Museum of American Art, George Eastman Museum, Georgia Council for the Arts, American Society of Media Photographers, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester Institute of Technology, The Buffalo Museum of Science, Savannah College of Art and Design, and Southern Poverty Law Center. He recently finished his first novel, a thriller about a photo-journalist who gets mixed up with a group of neoNazi bank robbers and based on his experiences photographing radical racists in the 1990s.
